fact it's the assad regime that cut the connection. the question is why would they do that? we've seen more and more fighting getting closer and closer to damascus. particularly into the areas where the government is the strongest, like around the airport, which has been open and planes have been coming and going since the start of this war nearly two years ago. in the last two days, fighting has gotten particularly heavy and flights have been canceled out of the international airport. the rebels at one point claimed to have held the road going to the airport. the assad government says they now have that road, but there is still reports of heavy fighting leading to the airport and the airport still has closed because of the fighting in the area. so it looks more and more like the rebels are pushing in on government-controlled areas and moving closer and closer to damascus and that may be one big reason why the assad regime cut the internet and cut the mobile phone connections trying to slow their progress, that hamper any movement they